Yin Yoga
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5 August 2021 •
18:30 - 19:30
The Secret Garden Y34X076
Niamh Colfer
Niamh teaches Vinyasa Flow, Yin Yoga & Restorative yoga as well as mixed movement workshops, strength training, myofacial release and yoga masterclasses.
Niamh is a fully qualified personal trainer, yoga teacher RYT-500 and strength and conditioning coach working since 2015 both online and from her new state of the art geodesic dome gym / yoga studio on the Hook Peninsula where she works with clients one to one and in semi private groups.
With a focus on alignment and mobility Niamh uses a variety of training styles including yoga, gymnastics, mobility development, breath-work, resistance training using weights and bands as well as body weight training.
Description
If you feel like you're too busy to do yoga, Yin might be the yoga style for you! It's a beautifully meditative practice and we could all do with a little bit more yin in our lives. Join me for a one hour Yin yoga class every Thursday evening at the Secret Garden.
Yin Yoga combines the physical with the mental and is designed to calm a busy mind. It's a practice where you just surrender to stillness and allow your body to soften and be supported by cushions and blankets on the floor, where you consciously let go of the mind chatter and the inner critic. This is a more deep stretching class to improve flexibility as well as range of motion and stability in your joints. Most of the poses are practiced low to the floor either seated or in a supine or prone position and involved holding poses for a few minutes at a time.
Yin yoga is one of the best practises you can do to improve flexibility & restore range of motion in your joints. It is the style of yoga that helps us to really wind down and tune inwards. If you, like me, are more of a yang person, ie. active, restless you might think about trying Yin to slow down and balance out that energy.
It's a very yang world out there, constantly moving, changing. Yin is a practice of stillness. It harnesses the lunar, more feminine energies in the body by nourishing our connective tissues that call for softening and stillness, where you consciously let go of the mind chatter and the inner critic. Being still in a very un-still world isn't easy and holding yin postures for a few minutes at a time can be surprisingly challenging. It's confronting, it challenges you slow down and to let go. Sometimes it feels boring, sometimes uncomfortable, other times blissful and then....little by little this hour of self care helps you develop flexibility and inner strength leaving you feeling balanced both physically and energetically.
